Author:Jonathan Swift/Essays

Essays

 * An Account of the Court of Japan (1728)
 * Advice to a Young Poet (c. 1721)
 * On the Death of Mrs. Johnson (1728)
 * A Discourse concerning the Mechanical Operation of the Spirit (1710)
 * An Essay on Modern Education (c. 1720)
 * An Essay on the Fates of Clergymen (c. 1703-20)
 * Hints on Good Manners (c. 1699-1736)
 * Hints Toward an Essay on Conversation (c. 1713)
 * Intelligencers (1728)
 * A Letter to a Very Young Lady on Her Marriage (c. 1703-20)
 * A Letter to a Young Clergyman (1720)
 * A Letter to the Writer of the Occasional Paper (1727)
 * Of the Education of Ladies (c. 1699-1736)
 * On Mr. Collins's Discourse of Freethinking (1713)
 * A Project for the Advancement of Religion and the Reformation of Manners (1709)
 * A Proposal For Correcting, Improving, and Ascertaining the English Tongue (1712)
 * Resolutions for Old Age (1699)
 * Some Arguments Against Enlarging the Power of Bishops (1723)
 * Some Thoughts on Freethinking (c. 1713)
 * Thoughts on Various Subjects (c. 1713)
 * Thoughts on various Subjects (1726) (Not the same work as the other with the same title)
 * A Treatise on Good Manners and Good Breeding (1726)
 * A Tritical Essay Upon the Faculties of the Mind (c. 1708)
 * A Vindication of Erasmus Lewis (1713)

Historical Essays

 * To the Count de Gyllenborg - Introduction to the Historical Essays (1719)
 * Fragment of the History of England - Romans to 1066 (c. 1703)
 * The Reign of William Rufus (c. 1703)
 * The Reign of Henry I (c. 1703)
 * The Reign of Stephen (c. 1703)
 * The Reign of Henry II - A Fragment (c. 1703)
 * Heads for Henry II's Character - Extracted from the Monks (c. 1703)

Character Essays

 * Character of Dr. Sheridan (1738)
 * Character of Herodotus (1720)
 * Character of Mrs. Howard (1727)
 * Character of Primate Marsh (1726)
 * Of Mean and Great Figures Made by Several Persons (c. 1733-1736)
 * Remarks on the Characters of the Court of Queen Anne (c. 1710-1739)
 * A Short Character of Thomas Earl of Wharton (1710)
 * Sketch of the Character of Aristotle (c. 1710-1730)

Commentaries on Works by Others

 * Dedication to Sir William Temple's Letters (c. 1700)
 * Observations on Heylin's History of the Presbyterians (1728)
 * A Preface to Bishop Burnet's Introduction (1713)
 * Preface to the Third Part of Sir William Temple's Memoirs (1709)
 * Preface to the Third Part of Sir William Temple's Miscellanies (1701)
 * Preface to the Third Volume of Sir William Temple's Letters (c. 1701)
 * Preface to the Two First Volumes of Sir William Temple's Letters (c. 1700)
 * Remarks on Bishop Burnet's History (1726)
 * Remarks on Bishop Fleetwood's Preface (c. 1723)
 * Remarks on Dr. Gibbs's Psalms (1701)
 * Remarks upon The Rights of the Christian Church (1708)

Other Works

 * Blunders, Deficiencies, Distresses, and Misfortunes of Quilca (1724)
 * Decree For Concluding the Treaty Between Dr. Swift and Mrs. Long (1711)
 * The History of Poetry, in a Letter to a Friend (1719)
 * Polite Conversation (1738)
 * An Introduction to Polite Conversation
 * Polite Conversation - Dialog I.
 * Polite Conversation - Dialog II.
 * Polite Conversation - Dialog III.


 * Anecdotes of the Family of Swift (c. 1700-1740)
 * Dr. Swift's Will (1740)

Duplicates

 * The Accomplishment of the First of Mr. Bickerstaff's Predictions
 * The Bickerstaff-Partridge Papers, (1707?)
 * A Complete Collection of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation, (1731)
 * Directions to Servants, (1731)
 * The First He Wrote
 * The Grand Question Debated, (1729)
 * The Intelligencer (with Thomas Sheridan), (1710-????)
 * The Lady's Dressing Room (1732)
 * Meditations Upon a Broomstick
 * On Poetry, a Rhapsody, (1733)
 * On the Conduct of the Allies, (1713)
 * Predictions for the Year 1708
 * A Proposal for Correcting, Improving and Ascertaining the English Tongue, (1712)
 * The Second Prayer
 * Le Sage
 * The Devil Upon Two Sticks
 * Drapier's Letters
 * An argument to prove that the abolishing of Christianity in England may, as things now stand, be attended with some inconveniences, and perhaps not produce those many good effects proposed thereby
 * Hints Towards an Essay on Conversation
 * A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet
 * Thoughts on various subjects